Date of birth: 1874-04-28
Date of death: 1936-06-12
Quotes number: 57
Nationality: Austrian
Profession: Writer
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
